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HowToStartOpenSource alternatives for AI agents.

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#1

Act

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

71K starsJun 1, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add nektos/act
#2

Goreleaser

Similarity 126Trust 92Excellent 100

Release engineering, simplified

16K starsJun 13, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add goreleaser/goreleaser
#3

Community

Similarity 125Trust 92Excellent 100

Public feedback discussions for: GitHub Mobile, GitHub Discussions, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Sponsors, GitHub Issues and more!

8.4K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgithub-automationRubyGitHub
$ npx skills add community/community
#4

Gitea

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 100

Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD

56K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add go-gitea/gitea
#5

Ubicloud

Similarity 118Trust 92Excellent 100

Open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and IAM services.

12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgithub-automationRubyGitHub
$ npx skills add ubicloud/ubicloud
#6

Lapce

Similarity 85Trust 92Excellent 100

Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

39K starsJun 10, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add lapce/lapce
#7

Gpt Pilot

Similarity 85Trust 88Excellent 100

The first real AI developer

34K starsJun 18, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot
#8

D2

Similarity 85Trust 90Excellent 100

D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.

24K starsApr 24, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add terrastruct/d2
#9

GitHubDaily

Similarity 84Trust 86Excellent 100

坚持分享 GitHub 上高质量、有趣实用的开源技术教程、开发者工具、编程网站、技术资讯。A list cool, interesting projects of GitHub.

47K starsDec 31, 2025 pushcoding-agentsDeveloper ToolsClaude Code
$ npx skills add GitHubDaily/GitHubDaily
#10

Onedev

Similarity 84Trust 93Excellent 100

Git Server with CI/CD, Kanban, and Packages. Seamless integration. Unparalleled experience.

15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsJavaCI/CD
$ npx skills add theonedev/onedev
#11

Skaffold

Similarity 84Trust 90Excellent 100

Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

16K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add GoogleContainerTools/skaffold
#12

Fireworks Tech Graph

Similarity 83Trust 92Excellent 100

Generate production-quality SVG+PNG technical diagrams from natural language. 7 styles, UML support, and AI/Agent workflow patterns.

7.7K starsJun 3, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add yizhiyanhua-ai/fireworks-tech-graph
#13

Terragrunt

Similarity 83Trust 89Excellent 100

Terragrunt is a flexible orchestration tool that allows Infrastructure as Code written in OpenTofu/Terraform to scale.

9.7K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add gruntwork-io/terragrunt
#14

Devenv

Similarity 83Trust 92Excellent 100

Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments using Nix

7.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add cachix/devenv
#15

Xh

Similarity 82Trust 85Excellent 100

Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

7.9K starsJun 8, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add ducaale/xh
#16

Refine

Similarity 78Trust 93Excellent 100

A React Framework for building internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.

35K starsJun 5, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add refinedev/refine

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